Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
John Eric Ensign, DVM (born March 25, 1958) is a former United States Senator from Nevada, serving from January 2001 until he resigned in May 2011 amid an investigation of an ethics violation related to an extramarital affair.
Read More at Wikipedia ›The judge overseeing the criminal trial of John Edwards will sharply curtail the testimony of a key witness for the defense who could raise doubt about whether the former presidential candidate broke campaign finance laws.
Edwards' lawyers had intended to call former Federal Election Commission chairman Scott E. Thomas as their first witness Monday morning, but prosecutors objected.Judge Catherine C. Eagles sent the jury home early so she could listen as Thomas answered questions to preview his intended testimony.Thomas said it was his opinion that nearly $1 million secretly provided by two campaign donors and used to hide the Democrat's pregnant mistress while he sought the White House in 2008 did not qualify as campaign contributions under existing federal law."These are intensely personal, by their very nature," said Thomas, who served on the FEC from 1986 to 2006 after appointments by Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton. "In my view this is a clear-cut case that the payments were no...There they sat -- the not-so-fabulous four – the current and former wise guys of Wall Street from mighty Goldman Sachs, squirming under the glare of TV klieg lights ...
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The husband of Sen. John Ensign's former mistress made "exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits" through an attorney, an aide to the Nevada Republic...
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The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop “following Fox” and instead join the administration’s a...
Former Sen. John Ensign of Nevada broke federal law, made false statements to the Federal Election Commission and obstructed a Senate Ethics Committee's investigatio...
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While the health care reform legislation making its way through Congress aims to protect millions of uninsured or underinsured Americans, Senate Majority Leader Harr...
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